Single press owners how much brass do reload at a time

[Harrison]

Never more than 50. If I need more than that I use my progressive press. I shoot hundreds of pistol rounds a week and don't have the time messing around loading them on a single stage. I bought a Dillon 550 20 some years ago and never looked back. I load my rifle rounds and match rifle loads on my turret press. .223 plinkers get loaded on the Dillon.

 

[Herb3]

When I sit down at the press to load I usually do 100 at a time.

I keep batches of brass prepped so a session at the press is:

Prime the already tumbled, sized, and flared brass
Drop powder
Seat bullet
Swap dies and do the crimp of this batch of 100

I do the above for everything I load for both my handguns and rifles.

 

[BigBill]

I reload over the winter. I ran 5k of 308win one winter and another 3k of 308win.the following winter in an RBCS Rockchucker press.
I decap, clean brass, resize, trim, final polish brass, prime, charge, seat the bullet. Each piece of brass gets handled six times per 6k rounds. Factor in some of the brass was military brass with crimped primer pockets. Each round was charged with the powder trickled so each round is the same exact load.

I just purchased a Lee Master Reloader press in 308win. It's a progressive press.

 

[M29since14]

This thread has been like a time machine! I remember when I first started loading. I only had 30 or so good pieces of brass for my Dad's .222 - a few pieces less than two full boxes. I was usually loading 10-20 rounds in an evening since I always kept 10 rounds or so loaded for my frequent "field trips." It was Norma brass. I remember buying the two boxes brand new for maybe a couple bucks a box - and I remember being furious with myself when I would get careless and ruin one of them. I still have a few of those in my loading room. I don't know how many times I loaded that brass but it was pretty good stuff!

Later, when I started loading for revolvers, I had only 50 pieces of 44 Magnums and 50 pieces of 44 Specials. I'd usually be loading 50 of one or the other - until they started cracking!

Somewhere along the road a friend showed me his Dillon 450. By that time another friend and I were regularly shooting .45s indoors once a week. We combined our funds and purchased a Dillon 550. We got so busy with that machine one of us bought out the other and we both have bought other 550s since then. Thinking back on it now, I don't know how I ever got along without a 550 for pistol ammunition. For rifle loads, I still use the old RCBS Rockchucker and load 20, 40, or 60 rounds at a time.

So, yes, I remember what it was like to be several years younger than 17 and a beginning handloader. Good luck and good shooting to the OP.

 

[Neumann]

I voted 50, but 100 is not an unreasonable number. It takes about an hour to do 50 rounds of a pistol caliber, especially since I seat and crimp in separate operations.

I like to shoot more now, and in several calibers, so it made sense to purchase a progressive press. Hickok45 uses a Dillon 550B, and after looking around, that made sense to me too. I can do 400 an hour after setup, and 400-500 is a good batch, or until I run out of one of the components. That sets me up for three or four range sessions.

 

[nicky4968]

I mostly load on a Lee Turret. I decap, clean, trim, prime, and powder. The next session is size (the primed and powdered case), M-die, seat, crimp. Usually 50 to 100.

But I have one centerfire rifle left. It is .30-30. That I load on the single-stage press. 10 to 20 at a session.

 

[C17]

My record is 500 in one sitting with a LEE challenger Single Stage press. All 45 ACP

 

[millisec]

Voted 300 but in reality 200 is typical (and not a choice). Brass is always ready to go and just crank them out. My biggest dislike is filling primer tubes and usually the reason I knock off.

 

[fyimo]

Except for hunting rifle rounds I usually load 300 of the pistol rounds or 223. On hunting loads I load 100 rounds because I shoot way less of them. I zero my hunting rifle in and shoot another 5 rounds after it's zeroed to get the feel of the trigger.